746 results for “psychiatric treatment”
41y · Male·Pheniramine toxicity
…drug toxicity. Clinical lessons include: the diagnostic difficulty in distinguishing drug toxicity from psychiatric illness or intoxication in acute presentations; the importance of comprehensive medication history and …
Female·Multiple causes: Ruby Natasha Nicholls-Diver: ligature compression of neck (hang…
Five psychiatric patients from Alma Street Centre (Fremantle Hospital) died by suicide within 12 months (March 2011-Marc…
40y · Male·combined drug toxicity in a man with asthma (undiagnosed) and sleep apnoea
…oaffective disorder, severe sleep apnoea, and undiagnosed asthma, died from combined drug toxicity on a psychiatric high-dependency unit. Critically, his earlier clinical records documenting sleep apnoea were not availa…
49y · Male·unascertainable; possible explanations include epileptic seizure, cardiac arrhyt…
Ritchie Gordon, a 49-year-old Aboriginal man with chronic schizophrenia, was a long-term involuntary psychiatric patient at Graylands Hospital who died on 12 July 2005 of unascertainable cause. Possible explanations …
43y · Female·Complications of morbid obesity, including progressive respiratory and cardiac f…
…piratory and cardiac failure, exacerbated by smoking and obstructive sleep apnoea. She was subject to a Psychiatric Treatment Order for schizophrenia at time of death. The coroner found care provided by Calvary Hospital…
35y · Female·multiple injuries sustained in fall from sixth-floor balcony
… at age 35 in November 2016. Key clinical lessons include: (1) the critical importance of continuity of psychiatric care during transitions between healthcare systems—FJ lost access to private psychiatry when leaving im…
31y · Male·Hypoxic encephalopathy caused by neck compression due to hanging
…ve error; failure to use Mental Health Act powers to compel medication when he was clearly psychotic and treatment-resistant; inadequate monitoring of a high-risk cell; presence of ligatures despite known self-harm risk…
78y · Female·advanced dementia (end stage)
…3 September 2017. She had Primary Progressive Aphasia diagnosed in 2014 following non-Hodgkin's lymphoma treatment. After admission to RGH on 23 August 2017 with escalating behavioural disturbances including agitation, …
38y · Male·Internal haemorrhage complicating large calibre gunshot wounds to the neck
Grant MacLeod, aged 38, died from a gunshot wound to the neck inflicted by Constable Mark Buckingham during a police response to reports of an armed person at a service station. MacLeod had suffered severe head injury in…
36y · Male·Global hypoxic brain injury due to hanging
Benjamin Johnston, a 36-year-old male, died by hanging after six weeks of varenicline (Champix) treatment for smoking cessation. Two weeks before death, his partner noted significant behavioral changes: withdra…
21y · Male·Compression of the neck consequent upon hanging
…llowing absconding from hospital. He was admitted to Casey Hospital ED on 12 July 2015 on an involuntary treatment order, having absconded twice in the preceding three days. Staff were warned by his mother that he might…
62y · Male·not stated - body never found
… long history of depression, anxiety, and alcohol use disorder, was admitted to St Vincent's Hospital's psychiatric units (PECC and Caritas) in June 2020 following suicidal ideation. After approximately two weeks of tre…
17y · Female·self-inflicted hanging
…, 17-year-old Aboriginal girl in state care, died by hanging at a residential facility. She had complex psychiatric needs including depression, trauma, self-harm, and substance abuse, with four years of unstable placeme…
70y · Male·Hanging
…, and was discharged with antidepressant therapy and community follow-up. However, he ceased taking his psychiatric medications and died by hanging 3 days after discharge. The coroner found that while Alfred Health's ca…
63y · Female·Multiple stab wounds to neck and chest
…umenting paranoia, hallucinations, aggression and self-harm threats. Critical clinical lessons include: psychiatric assessment gaps when prisoners transferred between jurisdictions (Cook's prior mental health history an…
58y · Male·Cardiomegaly and severe single vessel coronary artery atherosclerosis in a man w…
David John McLeod, a 58-year-old man with schizoaffective disorder, was admitted to a psychiatric inpatient unit on 21 August 2012 following mental health deterioration. He presented with signs of infe…
62y · Male·Multiple sharp force injuries intentionally inflicted by client during home visi…
… multiple systemic failures: no psychiatrist review of Kemball occurred for 6 months after his Community Treatment Order expired (June 2019), despite known risk of deterioration; no formal mental health shared care plan…
29y · Female·multi-lobe community acquired pneumonia and respiratory failure
…dical deterioration. After involuntary admission on 13 January when cognitive impairment interfered with treatment decisions, the team deliberately avoided nasogastric feeding despite her severe malnutrition due to her …
60y · Male·sepsis/leg cellulitis with peripheral oedema and congestive cardiac failure in t…
Andrew Leader, a 60-year-old man with treatment-resistant schizophrenia, emphysema, COPD, chronic hyponatraemia, and heart failure, died of sepsis from …
75y · Male·Ischaemic heart disease secondary to coronary artery atherosclerosis; acute myoc…
…that impacted the cause of death. However, concerns were raised about discharge planning from inpatient psychiatric care being incomplete and precipitous, causing distress requiring intramuscular sedation. The autopsy c…
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